Bharath Gopi, Nedumudi Venu, V. K. Sreeraman, Jalaja and the artistes of the Great Chitra Circus form the cast.

[5] The arrival of a travelling circus troupe causes ripples in the idyllic existence of a village on the banks of a river, which is the setting for Aravindan Govindan's poetic, allegorical film Thamp.

G. Aravindan assembled a group of real circus performers and travelled to the village of Thirunavaya on the banks of the Bharathapuzha river with them in a cinéma-vérité fashion.

However, after that, the villagers lose interest and turn their attention to planning a local festival, and the circus group disperses without leaving any traces.

The irony of a young guy from the upper middle class finding himself alone in his own environment after returning from abroad to his hamlet further explores the issue of alienation.

The film's beauty lies in its reflective pauses, its keenly perceptive but delicate gaze, and its juxtaposition of the pathos of the circus performers as they go about their daily business and, more starkly, as they speak directly to the camera in impassive close-ups.

The scanning of the picture and sound and the hours of manual work that went into the digital clean-up of the scratches and tears and the image stabilisation was done at Prasad Studios.

At the Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes, France in 2022 too the film played to full houses.